contributed by Space Rogue
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contributed by mea culpa
Yesterday Steven Silberman revealed that Se7en had dupped many members of the press in regards to his cyber vigilantism against pedophiles. Now Adam Penenberg one of the journalists who broke the story on the Forbes Digital Tool web site writes an open letter to the hacking community.

Adam Penenberg's Letter
Wired
Attrition.org- The Evidence
Ethical Hackers Against Pedophilia- The real deal

contributed by Code Kid
A misconfigured search engine lead to thousands of patient medical records at the University of Michigan Health System being accessible to anyone on the net. Exposed information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, employment status, and treatment records. I would like to know whose bright idea it was to put sensitive information such as this on a internet accessible web server in the first place. Unlike credit reports or even video rentals there is no federal law preventing the dissemination of this information.

Wired

contributed by Dr. Mudge
A security advisory for Rational Software's Clear Case v3.2 has been released by the L0pht. This one allows any user to add the SUID bit to any file on the system.

L0pht Heavy Industries

contributed by ViPER
The group that just two months ago declared cyberwar on China and Iraq has gone legit. Their new web site now offers web hosting and security consulting. While there does seem to be a void of pricing and other information on the web site their lightning fast one to three day 'external audit' looks interesting. Wonder how they are able to cram one to three weeks worth of work into a couple of days? I guess the real question is can you trust these cyberwarriors to audit your systems?

Legions of the Underground
HNN Histograph of the LoU-China-Iraq War

contributed by Weld Pond
Read about the head of the National Infrastructure Protection Center and White House terrorism czar, Richard Clarke. Sitting in Oliver North's old office he heads the government's chief counter terrorism group.

NY Times

contributed by erehwon
Gisle Hannemyr has some interesting things to say is his deeply researched article "Technology and Pleasure: Considering Hacking Constructive". I have to disagree with the some of the conclusions he has drawn from his research though.

First Monday